You are right, Lego prices are one of the few, which didn't go up as much as other popular toy brands, in fact for a few decades now they managed to be consistent with prices.
The audience is huge for SW and Lego amongst adults makes it possible to release these enormous multi-thousand piece sets, which pushes the prices up. More pieces = higher price.
Its a lots of money? Yes.
Is it more overpriced, than the average lego set price per piece in general? No.
Not playing the devils advocate, only as a fun fact:
The price of lego sets per piece (PPP) is pretty consistent over the years, almost since the 80s. Even the licenced sets are staying relatively close to the average PPP.
The big difference is, that all the Lego enthusiast kids from the 80s and 90s are now adults with disposable income and Lego is riding this wave since the mid 2000s by releasing bigger and bigger sets aiming mainly adults, who can in theory buy them.
Here is an insanely in-depth analysis about the prices if someone is interested:
Apart from the endless EA, Ubisoft and similar AAA copy/paste titles I never understood the hype around MOBA games.
I don't get it. Its not real time strategy, but not an ARPG either, you dont create a character, instead have an insane pool of unique characters with a few abilities each. Its just feels like someone wrote down some random game mechanics and choose 5 at random.
All levels are basically the same with mild variations and the whole gameplay loop boils down to optimised fast clicking on abilities and to get strong asap.
Its super boring for me and couldn't spend more than a couple hours with the games from the genre. Same goes for watching other people play.
Its just a cherry on top to have the biggest tournaments and cash prices, while the top players are celebrated as superstars. Also somehow the biggest MOBA communities are infamous for toxicity.
Remnant 2 - as much as I suck at souls-likes, I am keep going back to this one. Loved the first one, beat it multiple times with friends and randos, but I think the sequel improved on every aspect. Just started a new character (of course the puppy class) and slowly progressing throught the firs world solo.
Its just sad that people who know how internet search works for the sake of comfort let someone else decide what they see when searching for stuff.
Stupid people and internet illiterate people exist since the dawn of the internet. Thats not news.
Whats scary is how a new generation of people will lose or not develop basic critical thinking and research skills, and let an algorithm serve up content to them when looking for information.
Macaroni_ninja @ Macaroni_ninja @lemmy.world Posts 9Comments 762Joined 2 yr. ago
Fuck thats terrifying